Michael Cox Quotes

For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.

I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.